Wait, please don't call me Emperor Zhaolie

Chapter 239 Yuan Shao: I Envy Liu Xuande

"Yuan Hao's words are just absurd and ridiculous. You don't need to take them seriously."

When Xu You saw Yuan Shao looking angry, he immediately bowed and said.

Previously, bystanders were happy to see Tian Feng and Feng Ji become enemies, but Tian Yuanhao made suggestions and said that Yuan Gong should not only assess people's abilities but also their moral character.

Saying these words so blatantly in front of Xu Ziyuan, isn't that a hidden message?

There are always some people who think they can easily use him as a stepping stone and try their best to alienate the relationship between Xu You and Ben Chu that has lasted for many years.

"Yuan Hao would recommend Duke Ju and be the military supervisory officer of Ganling Prefecture. I'm afraid they are very close friends in private."

"Besides, when we were in Yecheng, I even pleaded for Yuan Hao out of righteousness. Why do you still feel offended by it? You should not use words against your will to vent your hatred back then."

"You and Yuan Tu are both Yuan Gong's staff members. You should be of one mind and one purpose. How can you hate me like an enemy and take revenge on me?"

Xu You stroked his beard and said with a smile.

It seemed like he was trying to persuade but in fact he was adding fuel to the fire. Xun Chen moved his lips slightly as if he wanted to say something fair, but in the end he shook his head.

"Ziyuan, you..." Tian Feng was slightly stunned. He didn't expect that Xu You not only did not help persuade Lord Yuan, but instead added insult to injury.

I don’t know if Feng Ji and Qu Yi were defeated in Qingzhou, which would directly make all the nobles and powerful families who were watching hesitate and give up.

In this case, how can we use the power of the general trend to defeat Liu Xuande? !

If there is no overwhelming force, how can we shake the three states of Qing, Yan and Xu and make scholars all over the world flock to us.

Lord Yuan was not defeated by Liu Bei, but by you, a group of people who indulge in your own selfish desires and forget about the affairs of the world.

"Feng risked his life to ask for Xu You to be executed in order to cleanse the selfish hearts of officials in Jizhou. The trouble with the Yuan family is not with the Liu family, but within the family. They have no intention of serving the public and are fighting for their own interests. If we don't use the axe to kill one person who relies on his status and power, how can we kill one person to warn a hundred officials?"

Tian Feng knelt down and bowed, and when he raised his head his face was already covered with tears.

Yuan Shao was already burning with rage, but when he saw Tian Feng crying and beating his chest with tears and blood, he was furious.

He couldn't help but feel soft-hearted and glared at Xu You fiercely. He naturally heard that Xu Ziyuan was trying to put out the fire with just one ointment. Tian Feng had a straight-forward character and he didn't know how he had offended Xu You, so he took this opportunity to take revenge.

Yuan Shao hurriedly got off the bed, not even having time to put on his shoes. He raised his hand to help Tian Feng, who was kneeling on the ground, and said with emotion: "Yuan Hao is loyal to the core, and I know this. However, if military orders are changed every day, people will despise the law. How can a king rule his people without dignity?!"

"Besides, Yuan Tu already knew Dingnan's strategy to defeat Liu. He is also a wise man from Hebei. How could he be easily deceived by Liu Xuande? Yuan Hao, you worry too much."

"If you can work together, Shao won't have to worry about the conquest of Qingzhou or the unrest in the world."

Yuan Shao pulled Tian Feng all the way to the couch, and after persuading him to sit down, he sighed and regretted.

He knew that the people below were fighting for power and profit. Everyone had selfish thoughts and ideas. As long as they didn't push their luck too far, there was nothing wrong in just letting them do what they wanted.

Without the attraction of fame and fortune, how many people in the world would rely on the Yuan family? Without giving up their own interests, how could they win over the gentry and wealthy families?

Sometimes when he woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep, he would look north to the Qingzhou Plain, envying Liu Xuande for being able to measure the land as he pleased and to suppress the rebellion of the nobles without any worries. But Yuan Shao couldn't do that. If he also measured the land in Jizhou, the disciples and officials accumulated by the Yuan family in Runan for decades would surely lose their morale, and the nobles and nobles in Hebei would also rise up in rebellion.

Especially at this moment of the decisive battle between Yuan and Liu, he would toss and turn all night, unable to sleep, fearing that he would end up like Wang Lang.

One could even imagine, if the Dou family had welcomed Liu Bei of Zhuo County instead of Liu Hong from Hejian who had no ambition to be a ruler, what would the world be like and whether the Han Dynasty would be completely renewed.

However, he soon put this fantasy behind him. Yuan Shao knew very well that it was because Liu Xuande put too much pressure on him that made him have such absurd ideas.

This incident also made Yuan Shao alert. Even he was somewhat shaken, let alone the others. They had to use their power to suppress the officials of Jizhou so that they would not dare to have any disloyal thoughts.

The other aides could all guess it, but Tian Yuanhao was the only one who didn't understand it.

Yuan Shao couldn't help feeling a lot of emotion.

Seeing Tian Feng also sitting on the couch, it meant that Lord Yuan no longer had any intention of blaming him. Xun Chen next to him thought for a while, bowed and said, "Lord Yuan, if the military order is easily changed, it will undermine the authority of the ruler. It is better to immediately issue a document to strictly order Feng Yuantu, Qu Yi, Zhu Wenbo, Jiang Yiqu and others not to lead the army out of the city to fight with the Qingzhou army."

"We must wait until the Wuhuan cavalry marches south, so that the main force of the Qingzhou army can be mobilized to the north, and then we can act accordingly. Otherwise, anyone who disobeys orders will be executed."

Yuan Shao was delighted when he heard this and praised him, saying, "You are right. I will do as you say and order the secretary to write the document immediately and send it to Du County quickly. Let Yuan Tu be cautious first."

"The reason why I promised to recruit the Hu people to go south is to invisibly exhaust Liu Xuande's soldiers. Our army can rest and wait for them to tire out, wait for them to get hungry, and then break their army formation. We must never rush to attack the enemy first."

"Tell Jiang Yiqu to set up camp carefully and not forget the lesson of Yan Liang's defeat at the Huanshui River."

Yuan Shao thought about it and gave some earnest instructions.

Liu Xuande liked to use his troops by surprise, attacking the enemy when they were unprepared, and advancing at an extremely fast speed; if one was not careful, one would suffer great losses.

Then he turned sideways and looked at Xu You, and said, "Ziyuan, I hope you can recommend to me an official to be sent to Xiangyang to persuade Liu Jingsheng that even if he does not help the Yuan family of Runan, he should not help Liu Bei."

"Otherwise, both Yuan Gonglu in Huainan and Cao Mengde in Jiangdong will be restrained and blocked by him..."

Thinking of this, Yuan Shao couldn't help but curse Liu Xuande in his heart. He actually took advantage of the gap when Liu Xuande was attacking Gongsun Zan in the north to connect Qing, Yan and Sili together and block his forces in Hebei.

Previously, they could appoint officials in various places and extend their hands everywhere. However, after Luoyang was recovered from the Liangzhou bandits, not only was the correspondence between scholars in the north and the south cut off, but even if they used the excuse of returning home, they would be detained by the counties.

As a result, the messengers he sent to contact the southern princes were captured in groups. In the end, they had no choice but to walk along the mountain roads, crossing the sparsely populated Henei, Henan and Yingchuan, without going through post stations, pavilions and relay stations, and had to rely on their walking sticks to reach Jingzhou.

Yuan Shao also accidentally heard a Jizhou official complain to his colleague: "We have to walk 2,000 miles, and the place we pass is desolate and uninhabited, with poisonous insects and ferocious beasts everywhere. It is just like the hardships Zhang Qian experienced when he opened up the Western Regions."

He could not help feeling guilty, so from then on, all the officials who were sent as diplomatic missions to Jing and Yang were treated well by their parents, wives and children, so that they would not have to worry about anything.

Then he thought of Xin Pi, and took the imperial edict engraved by Xin Pi to appoint Cao Mengde as the governor of Yangzhou, and went to Jiangdong and never returned.

Later, it was discovered that he was forced to stay by Cao Cao, so Yuan Shao ordered someone to take out 500 gold from the treasury and send it to Xin Pi's house to support his wife and daughter.

(End of this chapter)